Check List 17(1): 133-136, doi: 10.15560/17.1.133
A new locality and the first record of juvenile specimens of the Sashed Catfish, Galeichthys peruvianus Lütken, 1874 (Pisces, Siluriformes, Ariidae), in northern Chile
expand article infoFelipe Méndez-Abarca‡, Enrique A. Mundaca§, Renzo Pepe-Victoriano‡
‡ Universidad Arturo Prat, Arica, Chile§ Universidad Católica del Maule, Curicó, Chile

Corresponding author: Felipe Méndez-Abarca ( f.mendez.abarca@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Arturo Angulo
© Felipe Méndez-Abarca, Enrique A. Mundaca, Renzo Pepe-Victoriano.
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Citation: Méndez-Abarca F, Mundaca EA, Pepe-Victoriano R (2021) A new locality and the first record of juvenile specimens of the Sashed Catfish, Galeichthys peruvianus Lütken, 1874 (Pisces, Siluriformes, Ariidae), in northern Chile. Check List 17(1): 133-136. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.1.133
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Abstract
We report the observation of two juvenile specimens of Sashed Catfish, Galeichthys peruvianus Lütken, 1874, south of Arica, Chile, which expands the current known distributional range of the species, by adding a previously unrecorded locality. The importance of the presence of breeding populations in the northern coast of Chile is discussed.
Keywords
Arica, Parinacota, breeding population, Ichthyofauna, Pacific coast